eccentric
偏心的,偏心,偏心的人,怪异的
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Definitions
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- : deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
- : Geometry. not having the same center; not concentric: used especially of two circles or spheres at least one of which contains the centers of both.
- : not situated in the center.
- : Machinery. having the axis or support away from the center: an eccentric wheel.
- : Astronomy. deviating from a circular form, as an elliptic orbit.
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- : a person who has an unusual, peculiar, or odd personality, set of beliefs, or behavior pattern.
- : something that is unusual, peculiar, or odd.
- : Machinery. a device for converting circular motion into rectilinear motion, consisting of a disk fixed somewhat off-center to a revolving shaft, and working freely in a surrounding collar , to which a rod is attached.
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Examples
He’s been around long enough to know that life is much more eccentric than he is.
Boston Dynamics, the company best known for eccentric videos of animal-like machines, has upgraded its classic robotic dog Spot.
They bonded in their love of the Bills and of the eccentric.
While a planet on a circular orbit moves at a constant speed around the star, planets on eccentric orbits move faster when they are closer to the star.
Soon after, the eccentric and apparently sleepless billionaire tweeted a series of other messages about Bitcoin.
Sometimes I wear my silk pyjamas when I am going for a walk in the mornings, does that make me eccentric?
She was one of the wealthiest women in the world and certainly the most eccentric noble of her time.
One of my most important mentors was a brilliant and eccentric rabbi from Bethesda, Maryland.
To his peers, he's an all-star eccentric who is pitied or clucked over protectively as often as he is envied.
The women Peterson photographed were offbeat, eccentric, irreverent, and not conventionally pretty.
Lorenzo Dow is still remembered by some of the "old fogies" as one of the most eccentric men that ever lived.